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them will immediately return back to their homes, and wait till a 
more favourable opportunity for commencing their expedition occur. 
From this circumstance, and the resemblance of its form to those so 
frequently met with among the hieroglyphics in Egypt, I am led to 
suspect that this species may answer to the sacred hawk of that 
country which was venerated by the ancient inhabitants." — (Salt's 
Travels in Abyssinia, App. p. 42.) 
" One of the most common birds in Abyssinia. Never found any- 
thing but locusts in its stomach. Is very inactive and slow in its 
movements." — (Dr. Eoth's MS. Eeport.) 
71. BUTEO BUFINUS, Rdpp. Sp. 
Palco rufinus, Bilpp.y Zool. Atlas, p. 40, t. 27. 
Buteo rufinus, Kaup, Isis (1847), p. 336. G. B. Gray, 
Gen. of Birds, I. p. 11 ; Cat. B. Brit. Mus. p. 33. 
Hodgs., Cat. B. Nep. p. 39. Blytli, Cat. B. Mus. A. 
S. Beng. p. 28. Bonap., C. G. Av. p. 18. 
Buteo canescens, Hodgs., Beng. Sport. Mag. (1836), 
p. 180. 
Buteo longipes, Jerd., Madr. Journ. L. S. X. p. 75. 
Nasal Falcon, Bath., BCist. I. p. 169. 
Long-legged Buzzard, Jerd. 
Canescent Buzzard, Hodgs. 
Chtjha-mar (" Eat-killer "), Hind., Jerd. Blytli. 
Abu Jeeatdi (Arabic), Babylon, Jones. 
a. Lower Bengal. Presented by the Asiatic Society of 
Bengal. 
h. Babylon. Presented by Commander Jones. 
" This is certainly a rare bird," remarks Mr. Jerdon. " I have 
hitherto only seen it near Jaulnah, perched on low trees or on the 
ground, in fields or near water, and taking a low and short flight to 
another similar perch. In the stomach of the specimen I shot there 
was a Gryllotalpa (cricket). Mr. Elliott, who met with this species 
only in Guzrat, says : " This bird evidently preys on the field-rats 
which abound in the sandy soil of this province. He is seen sitting 
on low trees or bushes over the rat-burrows, and, w^atching his 
opportunity, darts down on his victim. In the stomach of one were 
the exuvia) of a rat {Arvicola) and a large beetle." — (Madr. Journ. 
L. S. X. p. 76.) 
